Chapter 14: Succeeding in Your Teacher Education Program--and Beyond

My concerns

• I do not want to have to deal with standardized testing.

• As a special education teacher, will my budget be low, and will other teachers be willing to make their classrooms inclusive.
• Will I be stuck in the classroom all day or will I have support with incorporating therapeutic recreation.

There are two stages that I find in each of these. The first is self, this is to say I am concerned about my competence and my sanity. As a teacher these are two things that are important to maintain, without competence, or sanity I will not be a good teacher.

I think that the second stage is the most pertinent to my concerns, most of them are based of self, but effect much more then self.

Chapter 13: Improving Teachers and Schools, and School Reform

As a future teacher it is important to build up my resumé. A couple things I plan on adding to it are, practicum (student teaching), good scores on the praxis. I would also like to add (durning my first year) a national board certification, from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

During my first five years as a teacher I hope to become a better teacher, I will work on this daily and hopefully get better and better. Some experiences that will be beneficial are things such as teacher workshops, having a mentor teacher, I also plan on taking post college training sessions.

Chapter 7: Thinking about Teaching and Learning

These are three ideas I would like to incorporate in my philosophy paper

• Page 266 I like Ralph W. Tylers and his four ideas about teaching.
• Page 277 I like the first two Hilda Taba but not the third.
• Page 275 I really Like Confucius
• Page 276 i agree with Perennialism